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"Privacy" and the new world order
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09-12-2011 9:25pm#1Mods please move if in wrong place. Have no idea where it should go.
Privacy, a dying concept or perhaps redundant in the new world order.
Well, the new world order (or world norm maybe) has probably just arrived. I suppose it was only a matter of time when those bright young things who were about 15years old in and around 1990 when computers started making their mark and the internet quickly followed, became the movers and shakers of today. I believe Google has a relatively young work force throughout and I would further guess that the people there who make the policies which affect millions of people on the planet are not much over the 40 age mark. If I’m right it will probably give some support for the following thoughts.
Privacy, now there’s an old fashioned word folks. I think that it’s a word that many of the under 42s ish really have little or no thoughts on and much less regard for in the sense that I will now try and explain. There’s a whole load of them and some who unfortunately are in a position of power and in particular Global power. It is some of those people who simply cannot properly comprehend the position that I and a fair few others hold regarding this thing called Privacy. And it is this, ‘that we want to try and keep hold of what little privacy we have left’. We value it somehow. It should be mentioned here that I have just been locked out of Youtube for not giving my personal numbers to them which is why you are reading this now. Full details of which are documented elsewhere and this is not the place to air them once again. (posting update, am back in Youtube now but have had to link email account).
Where was I, oh yes, “privacy”, a dying concept and it wouldn’t surprise me if the word will be erased from all dictionaries and the English Language altogether before too long. Over the past 3 decades “Information” has become king. I remember in the 70s on a BBC programme called ‘Tomorrows World’ they talked about some new machine called a computer which will change the world. They were right of course. And between then and now how many times have we heard it said that the commodity of the future will be ‘Information’. Well the future is here and information is king.
The predictions mentioned above are all fairly ok except when it comes to what some assume is nothing at all to worry about, perhaps its because the word is mentioned so often (but not understood in the sort of old fashioned sense). Yes it's that little thing called ‘Privacy’.
There are those who say something like,
“well fella, what you got to worry about, go on, give every organisation that asks for it your personal number, birth cert, and inside leg measurement, or have you got something to hide, I bet you have, you are up to no good aren’t you, what, you think they’re going to do something dodgy with it or leak it or something”. Of course they would never, ever do anything like that would they, ‘smile’ and of course the info could never be lost, stolen or leaked, grins. Well here’s the thing, I have nothing to hide and I am not up to no good. When I don’t want to give out personal information which I ‘deem is unnecessary’ I am simply ‘protecting my privacy’. If they don’t have it they can’t loose it or do whatever with it.
Now here’s the tricky bit. This is such an extremely difficult concept for those on the other side of the fence so to speak (especially the young decision makers in Google and the like) to grasp because they’ve grown up in a world where more and more information is asked of people by companies who have the awesome technology/capability to store and process and use and dare I say it misuse as they seem fit. Those people see it as ‘totally normal’. They’ve been filling out boxes and giving out masses of information since they were school leavers without question in what seems to be a total ‘blind faith’ sort of way The sad thing is that this is ‘perfectly normal’ to them. Who would blame them, certainly not me, because they have never known anything different. Probably showing my age now but I have, (known something different). I understand completely the concept of ‘Privacy’. For most of my life it was ‘not normal’ to hand over masses of information to organisations with massive computing power.
Another point about all this is that we the ‘Privacy Protectors Brigade’ understand the mindset of those that say ‘give it without question’ but they don’t seem to understand us or probably care. More sadly I doubt they ever will, why, because probably they’ve never had much privacy and we Privacy Protectors will always remain as some kind of freaks in their eyes. Also it will only get worse with the teenagers of the noughties growing up from a very young age with their Facebooks etc….absolutely normal to have ‘it’ all out there. Therefore it follows that any amount of debate will unfortunately be unlikely to change anything….Brave New World. Very sad.
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the watchman wrote: »Thank you for that. Perhaps I may have got it a little wrong. I hope I have.
Something slighty different. Although I'm not a member, this new 'Timeline' thingy on facebook is causing a few concerns. I read the 10 main points about it but its still a bit foggy to me. Will it mean that even stuff you deleted from your account is going to come back up?
No. Short answer but there's no other for it :pac:
you can get the timeline now & "review it" as it says, decide what to delete, stories to highlight(make them bigger can't remember what its called now) add stuff etc. then publish it.
It also says that the timeline goes live on the 26th so this must be for everyone who doesn't change over early
I was messing around with it yesterday and some things still seem buggy, the map for example. You'd expect that though & i've a feeling a lot of people won't like it(will be complaining about it), i also think its better if the person is really active on facebook, it looks shít enough otherwise(like mine
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